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AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct

In 2015, the American Association of Universities (AAU) and member institutions designed and implemented the first Campus Climate Survey. This survey aimed to assess the prevalence of sexual assault and sexual misconduct in American universities, as well as how the campus climate may be related to or contribute to misconduct. One of AAU’s goals in designing this survey was to provide academic institutions with the information they need to create or modify policies that address the problem of sexual misconduct on campus. The survey was implemented again in 2019.   The Campus Climate Survey is considered the largest survey of its kind, with over 150,000 students from 27 colleges and universities completing the 2015 survey, and over 180,000 students from 33 colleges and universities completing the 2019 survey. It includes a mix of undergraduate and graduate and professional school respondents, as well as respondents from both public and private institutions.   Additional Resources from AAU: Report on the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct (January 17, 2020) Press Release: AAU Releases 2019 Survey on Sexual Assault and Misconduct (October 15, 2019) Methodology Report for the AAU Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct (April 12, 2016) Press Release:  AAU Releases Campus Climate Survey on Sexual Assault and Sexual Misconduct (September 21, 2015)
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ABC News/Washington Post Poll Series

Investigator(s): ABC News/Washington Post Since 1981, ABC News and The Washington Post, both separately and together, have commissioned public opinion polls to collect information on the American public's attitudes and opinions on various issues. These surveys, conducted by Chilton Research Services until mid-1999 and subsequently by Taylor Nelson Sofres Intersearch, gather information in the form of monthly and special topic polls. Monthly polls solicit respondent information on the presidency and on a variety of other political and social issues. Special topic polls focus on specific events or issues that are of timely significance.
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AP VoteCast Series

AP VoteCast is a survey of the American electorate conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago for The Associated Press and Fox News. Developed by The Associated Press and NORC at the University of Chicago, AP VoteCast is a new way to survey voters. The Associated Press and Fox News, among other news outlets, use the data to explain election outcomes and the mood of the electorate in their election night coverage. VoteCast debuted for the 2018 midterm elections after years of testing and development and was used again for the 2020 Democratic primaries, 2020 presidential election, 2020 special Senate elections in Georgia, 2021 gubernatorial election in Virginia, and 2022 midterm elections. In 2024, it covered the presidential primaries and caucuses and will be covering the presidential election in November. VoteCast was designed by NORC at the University of Chicago and The Associated Press to provide a new approach to understanding elections. Using a random, probability-based sample of registered voters to carefully calibrate a very large sample from opt-in, online panels, VoteCast delivers the best of both methods – the accuracy of probability-based surveys combined with the scale provided by an opt-in survey that interviews tens of thousands of people quickly. Because VoteCast is not based on in-person interviews at the polling booth, the adaptive methodology meets voters where they are and accurately captures voter sentiment no matter how people choose to vote. It provides results in every state holding a statewide election, which means VoteCast delivers a broader portrait of the American electorate than any other election survey. The Associated Press and NORC are committed to transparency of VoteCast’s methods and results, as well as continual improvement of the VoteCast methodology.
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ASTHO Profile Survey of State and Territorial Public Health and Forces of Change Series

The ASTHO Profile is the only comprehensive source of information on state and territorial public health agency activities, structures, and financial and workforce resources. Launched in 2007 and fielded every two to three years, the ASTHO Profile aims to define the scope of state and territorial public health services, identify variations in practice among state and territorial public health agencies, and contribute to the development of best practices in governmental public health. The Profile highlights descriptive findings from each survey round and includes summaries of the structure, activities, and resources of individual state and territorial agencies. These data represent the breadth of work overseen by health agencies and the structural nuances and limitations in which they conduct their work. For more information, please visit the project website. The Forces of Change Survey primarily focuses on emergent and rapidly changing trends. The data collected sought to determine the current climate at state and territorial health agencies as it related to budget, workforce, accreditation, and special interest topics.
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Adult Education Surveys Series

Investigator(s): U.S. Bureau of the Census These surveys, conducted by the Bureau of the Census as part of their Current Population Survey, collected information on participants in adult and continuing education activities throughout the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Information was collected on types of courses taken, types of institutions or agencies offering courses, reasons for taking the courses, and the respondent's age, sex, and race.The NCES Web site also provides detailed information on the Adult Education and Program Study, the National Household Education Surveys Program, and the National Assessments of Adult Literacy.
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Afrobarometer Survey Series

Investigator(s): Michael Bratton, Nicolas van de Walle, et al. The Afrobarometer series was developed by select Africanist scholars with funds from a variety of sources: the National Science Foundation, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Danish Governance Trust Fund at the World Bank, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Michigan State University, and the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The series represents a large-scale, cross-national survey research project designed to systematically map mass attitudes to democracy, markets, and civil society in more than a dozen sub-Saharan African nations, and ultimately, to track the evolution of such attitudes in selected nations over time. More specifically, the series furnishes research data on democracy, governance, livelihoods, macroeconomics and markets, social capital, political regimes and transition, conflict and crime, political participation, and national identity in sub-Saharan Africa. Afrobarometer surveys are conducted periodically in such sub-Saharan African nations as Botswana, Cape Verde, Lesotho, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. The series is partly modeled on Eurobarometer studies of the last 24 years, the new Eurobarometer studies of the last ten years, the Latinobarometer, and the East Asianbarometer. It thus enables comparison across continents.For more information, visit the Official Afrobarometer Web site.
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After the JD Series

The After the JD (AJD) project is the first and most ambitious effort to gather systematic, detailed data about the careers and experiences of a national cross-section of law graduates. It follows a large national sample of lawyers admitted to the bar in 2000 over the first decade-plus of their careers and is a unique source of information on the changing nature of legal careers. AJD is an empirical study of the career outcomes of a cohort of almost 5,000 new lawyers, offering both a nationally representative picture of lawyer career trajectories and an in-depth portrait of the careers of women and racial and ethnic minority lawyers. The study design is longitudinal, following the careers of new lawyers over the first ten years following law school graduation; the first cohort of lawyers was surveyed in 2002, the second in 2007, and the third in 2012. To learn more about the After the JD project, please visit the American Bar Foundation.
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American Community Survey (ACS) Series

Investigator(s): United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census. The American Community Survey (ACS) is a nationwide survey designed to provide communities with a fresh look at how they are changing. It will replace the decennial long form in future censuses and is a critical element in the Bureau of the Census' re-engineered 2010 census. The decennial census has two parts, the short form, which counts the population, and the long form, which obtains demographic, housing, social and economic information from a 1-in-6 sample of households. Conducted under the authority of Title 13, United States Code, Sections 141 and 193, full implementation of the American Community Survey is planned in every county in the United States. The survey would include approximately three million households. Response is mandatory and data are collected by mail with Bureau of the Census staff conducting a follow-up with those who do not respond. The goals of the American Community Survey are to provide an information base to federal, state, and local governments for the administration and evaluation of their programs, to improve the 2010 Census, and to provide data users with timely demographic, housing, social, and economic data that can be compared across states, communities, and population groups. The American Community Survey will provide estimates of demographic, housing, social, and economic characteristics every year for all states, as well as for all cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and population groups.
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American Customer Satisfaction Index Series

Established in 1994, the American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI) is a uniform and independent measure of household consumption experience. The ACSI tracks trends in customer satisfaction and provides benchmarking insights of the consumer economy for companies, industry trade associations, and government agencies. It is based on modeling of customer evaluations of the quality of goods and services that are purchased in the United States and produced by both domestic and foreign firms that have substantial U.S. market shares. The ACSI is produced by the Stephen M. Ross Business School at the University of Michigan, in partnership with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) and the international consulting firm, CFI Group. ForeSee Results sponsors the e-commerce and e-business measurements. The ACSI is funded in part by corporate subscribers who receive industry benchmarking data and company-specific information about financial returns from improving customer satisfaction.For more information, visit the ACSI Web site.
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American Health Value Survey (AHVS) Series

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has a vision to build a Culture of Health (CoH) by making health a shared national priority, one valued and advanced by multiple stakeholders across all sectors of society. This vision embraces a very broadly integrated and comprehensive approach to health, one where well-being lies at the center of every aspect of American life. In 2014, the RWJF commissioned NORC at the University of Chicago to plan and conduct the first American Health Values Survey (AHVS) to understand the extent to which United States adults held views consistent with this vision. The idea was to explore which types of United States adults were more supportive and less supportive of the goal and what the differences were between the more and less supportive groups. To aid in the understanding of these differences, NORC developed a typology of United States adults based on their values and beliefs related to the CoH vision. Using a large-scale national survey fielded in late 2015 and early 2016, NORC identified six major segments of the population of adults in the United States based on their differing health values and beliefs and developed detailed profiles of each segment that described their pattern of values and beliefs as well as their demographic, political and other characteristics. NORC subsequently replicated the typology development work in five RWJF Sentinel Communities across the nation and also developed a typology of rural America. The same segments, or similar ones, were common across various geographic areas of the United States. Four years have since passed, in which changes occurred in the country. RWJF in 2019 commissioned NORC to conduct a second national, cross-sectional survey (AHVS II) in late 2019 and early 2020. For more information: https://www.norc.org/research/projects/american-health-values-survey.html.
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American Housing Survey Series

Investigator(s): U.S. Bureau of the Census The American Housing Surveys (AHS), prior to 1984 called the Annual Housing Surveys, were first conducted in 1973 by the United States Bureau of the Census. This series comprises two types of data collections: a national survey of housing units, and surveys of housing units in selected metropolitan areas. The interviews cover core questions that are repeated each year, and an additional set of questions on recurring or one-time supplemental topics. The national data were collected annually through 1981 and have been collected every two years since that time. The metropolitan-area data are collected on a continuous basis and are reported annually. Through 1996, the national data were released by the Census Bureau in two forms: the National Core File and the National Core and Supplement (called the "National" Files by ICPSR). Beginning with the 1997 data, these were combined by the Census Bureau into one collection, called the National Microdata. The metropolitan-area data were originally released as SMSA Files, MSA Files, MSA Core Files, MSA Core Question Files, and MSA Core and Supplement Files. In 1997, the metropolitan-area data were combined by the Census Bureau into one collection, called the Metropolitan Microdata. Supplemental data on transportation were released in Travel-to-Work Files for some survey years, in addition to the data on this topic contained in the national datasets. Other recurring supplementary topics include mobility, second and mobile homes, disabilities, cars and major appliances, energy conservation, housing modifications, and additional questions on housing and neighborhood quality. An important feature of these surveys is that generally the same housing units remain in the sample year after year, and it is the housing unit rather than its occupants that is followed. For all American Housing Surveys, data collected on income can be used in conjunction with annual housing expenditures to estimate the average percentage of families' and primary individuals' incomes spent on housing. Households that have moved in the 12 months prior to enumeration are asked to provide comparative information on the current and previous residences of household heads. In 1997, the AHS was redesigned to present the data in multiple separate subject-matter files, and computer-assisted personal interviewing software was used to conduct all interviews, which allowed new responses to some questions. Therefore, users are asked to use caution when comparing prior years' data with data collected after 1996.
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American National Election Study (ANES) Series

Investigator(s): Warren E. Miller et al. and the National Election Studies The American National Election Study (ANES), begun in 1948, is the oldest continuous series of survey data investigating electoral behavior and attitudes in the United States. The focus of the survey includes voter perceptions of the major political parties, the candidates, national and international issues, and of the importance of the election. Also explored are voter expectations about the outcome of the election, degree of voter interest in politics, political affiliation and voting history, as well as participation in the electoral process. ANES interviews are conducted before and after presidential elections and after national congressional elections. Post-election interviews include questions on actual voting behavior and voter reflections about the election outcome.
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American Public Opinion and United States Foreign Policy Series

Investigator(s): Chicago Council on Foreign Relations This series of quadrennial studies was designed to investigate the opinions and attitudes of the general public and a select group of opinion leaders (or elites) on matters relating to United States foreign policy and to define the parameters of public opinion within which decision-makers must operate. For purposes of this series, opinion leaders are defined as individuals in positions of leadership in government, academia, business and labor, the media, religious institutions, special interest groups, and private foreign policy organizations. In two separate surveys, both general public and elite respondents are questioned regarding various foreign policy problems, such as the relationship between domestic and foreign policy priorities, the roles of various individuals and institutions in the creation of foreign policy, and the appropriate responses of the United States to actions by the (former) Soviet Union and other countries that vary from study to study. Other questions asked of both groups cover economic aid to other nations, military aid/selling military equipment to other nations, the role of the United States in world affairs, and the use of United States troops in other parts of the world. Respondents from the general public are also asked to rate various foreign countries and American and foreign leaders on a feeling-thermometer scale.
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American Time Use Survey (ATUS) Series

The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) Series collects information on how people living in the United States spend their time. Estimates show the kinds of activities people engage in and the time they spend involved in these activities by age, sex, educational attainment, labor force status, and other characteristics, as well as by weekday and weekend day.
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Americans' Use of Time Series

Investigator(s): Thomas F. Juster, Paul Courant, Greg J. Duncan, John P. Robinson, Frank P. Stafford The Americans' Use of Time series data were gathered as part of a multinational time budget project and consist of several datasets: AMERICANS' USE OF TIME, 1965-1966 (ICPSR 7254), TIME USE IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTS, 1975-1976 [ICPSR 7580], AMERICANS' USE OF TIME, 1965-1966, AND TIME USE IN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ACCOUNTS, 1975-1976: MERGED DATA [ICPSR 7796], AMERICANS' USE OF TIME, 1985 (9875), TIME USE LONGITUDINAL PANEL STUDY, 1975-1981 (9054), and FAMILY INTERACTION, SOCIAL CAPITAL, AND TRENDS IN TIME USE (FISCT), 1998-1999: [UNITED STATES] (ICPSR 3191). They contain single-day time personal diary, mail-back, and telephone interview data. The diaries consist of primary and secondary single-day activities. The files contain data on the estimates of daily time use by Americans, comprising work and nonwork leisure activities, as well as sociodemographic data. The FISCT 1998-1999 study contains data from 24-hour time diaries probing several indicators of social capital and life quality, gathered to update prior time series on how Americans spend time. The studies partly represent an attempt to apply recent methodological developments in the measurement of time use to a national probability sample of United States households in order to facilitate development of a fully articulated system of economic and social accounts. The time budget project focus included the following substantive and methodological areas: (1) time spent in social interaction, particularly parental time with children, (2) measurement problems in time estimates, (3) activity and social interaction patterns of elderly Americans, and (4) time spent on the Internet and effects on social isolation and other media usage.
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Annual Parole Survey Series

The Annual Parole Surveys collect administrative data from parole agencies in the United States. Data collected include the total number of adults on state and federal parole on January 1 and December 31 of each year, the number of adults entering and exiting parole supervision each year, and the characteristics of adults under the supervision of parole agencies. The surveys cover all 50 states, the federal system, and the District of Columbia. A crosswalk of the items included in each year of the Annual Parole Survey series, and the variable names and variable labels that have been assigned in the NACJD documentation and datasets is available. More information can be found in NACJD's Annual Parole Survey and Annual Probation Survey Resource Guide. Researchers may also be interested in the companion series Annual Probation Survey Series.
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Annual Probation Survey Series

The Annual Probation Surveys collect administrative data from probation agencies in the United States. Data Collected include the total number of adults on state and federal probation on January 1 and December 31 of each year, the number of adults entering and exiting probation supervision each year, and the characteristics of adults under the supervision of probation agencies. The surveys cover all 50 states, the federal system, and the District of Columbia. A crosswalk of the items included in each year of the Annual Probation Survey series, and the variable names and variable labels that have been assigned in the NACJD documentation and datasets is available. More information can be found in NACJD's Annual Parole Survey and Annual Probation Survey Resource Guide. Researchers may also be interested in the companion series Annual Parole Survey Series.
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Annual Survey of Governments Series

Investigator(s): U.S. Bureau of the Census State and local government employment data are provided in these files, which from 1973 to 1976 were titled ANNUAL SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS: GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT FILES. Two types of files in this series are produced by the Census Bureau in tandem: the ANNUAL SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS: FINANCE STATISTICS and the ANNUAL SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS: EMPLOYMENT STATISTICS. For the 1973 and 1974 data, ICPSR combined the Employment and Finance Files under one study number in a single collection (ANNUAL SURVEY OF GOVERNMENTS, 1973 AND 1974:GOVERNMENT EMPLOYMENT AND FINANCE FILES [ICPSR 7391]). Employment Statistics files include full- and part-time employment, full-time equivalency, and payroll statistics. Data are supplied by type of government and by function. Governmental functions include education (elementary, secondary, and higher education), police and fire protection, financial and central administration, judicial and legal, utilities, public welfare, parks and recreation, health care, transit, and natural resources. Employment Statistics files may have several record types, each corresponding to a type of governmental unit, with the same technical characteristics. Finance Statistics files provide data for revenues, expenditures, indebtedness and debt transactions, and cash and security holdings. Revenue data are listed by source, and expenditures are listed by function and type. Functions include education, administration, transit, and public welfare. Expenditure types include intergovernmental transactions, current operations, and capital outlays. Data also are presented for employee retirement systems operated by governments and for utilities operated by state and local governments. Records in this series for local governments in metropolitan areas carry Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) codes. All records contain FIPS state and county codes where appropriate.
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Annual Survey of Jails Data Series

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics The Annual Survey of Jails, formerly titled National Survey of Jails, is the only data collection effort that provides an annual source of data on local jails and jail inmates. The series was begun in 1982 by the Bureau of Justice Statistics with data collected by the Bureau of the Census. Local jails are locally-operated correctional facilities that confine persons before or after adjudication. Inmates sentenced to jails usually have a sentence of a year or less, but jails also incarcerate persons in a wide variety of other categories. Data on the size of the jail population and selected inmate characteristics are obtained every five to six years from the Census of Jails. In each of the years between the full censuses, a sample survey of jails is conducted to estimate baseline characteristics of the nation's jails and inmates housed in these jails. Data are supplied on admissions and releases, growth in the number of jail facilities, changes in their rated capacities and level of occupancy, growth in the population supervised in the community, changes in methods of community supervision, and crowding issues in state and federal prisons. The data are intended for a variety of users, including federal and state agencies, local officials in conjunction with jail administrators, researchers, planners, and the public.Years Produced: Annually, except every 5th year when the National Jail Census is produced.
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Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country Series

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics This series was begun in 1998 by the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and was collected as a component of the Annual Survey of Jails (ASJ). The purpose of this data series was to gather data on all adult and juvenile jail facilities and detention centers in Indian reservations, pueblos, rancherias, and other Native American and Alaska Native communities throughout the United States. The survey provides data on the number of inmates, staffing, and facility characteristics and operations of all confinement facilities operated by tribal authorities or the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), United States Department of the Interior.
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Arab Barometer Public Opinion Survey Series

The Arab Barometer Public Opinion Survey Series reflects multi-country social surveys designed to assess citizen attitudes about public affairs, governance, and social policy in the Arab World, and to identify factors that shape the public's attitudes and values. The Arab Barometer was established in 2005 by scholars in the Arab world and the United States. Leadership was initially provided by the University of Michigan and Princeton University in the U.S. and by universities and research centers in Jordan, Palestine, Morocco, Algeria and Kuwait. In 2010, a partnership was formed with the Arab Reform Initiative (ARI) in order to expand the project's scope and range of activities, building off ARI's regional survey work carried out in 2006-2008. The Arab Barometer was developed in consultation with the Global Barometer project; a network composed of regional barometers in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, and South Asia. The first wave of the Arab Barometer began in 2006/07 with the first round of surveys administered in seven countries. An eighth country was surveyed in 2009. Funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative, the Arab Barometer broke new ground in a region where systematic and rigorous politically-focused public opinion research had been extremely rare. The surveys drew on the most advanced scientific expertise in the region and were co-directed by Arab and American specialists with a firm understanding of the Arab world. The eight countries included in the first round of the Arab Barometer are Jordan, Morocco, Palestine, Bahrain, Algeria, Kuwait, Lebanon, and Yemen. All of the first wave surveys involved face-to-face interviews, and all used multi-stage area probability sampling to select respondents. Quotas were used in the final stage for Algeria and Kuwait. All respondents are eighteen years of age or older. Additional information about the Arab Barometer surveys is available on the Arab Barometer Web site.
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Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program/Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) Series

The Arrestee Drug Abuse Monitoring (ADAM) Program/Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) Series is an expanded and redesigned version of the Drug Use Forecasting (DUF) program, which was upgraded methodologically and expanded to 35 cities in 1998. The redesign was fully implemented beginning in the first quarter of 2000 using new sampling procedures that improved the quality and generalizability of the data. The DUF program began in 1987 and was designed to estimate the prevalence of drug use among persons in the United States who are arrested and booked, and to detect changes in trends in drug use among this population. The DUF program was a nonexperimental survey of drug use among adult male and female arrestees. In addition to supplying information on self-reported drug use, arrestees also provide a urine specimen, which is screened for the presence of ten illicit drugs. Between 1987 and 1997 the DUF program collected information in 24 sites across the United States, although the number of data collection sites varied slightly from year to year. Data collection took place four times a year (once each calendar quarter) in each site and selection criteria and catchment areas (central city or county) varied from site to site. The original DUF interview instrument (used for the 1987-1994 data and part of the 1995 data) elicited information about the use of 22 drugs. A modified DUF interview instrument (used for part of the 1995 data and all of the 1996-1999 data) included detailed questions about each arrestee's use of 15 drugs. Juvenile data were added in 1991. The ADAM program, redesigned from the DUF program, moved to a probability-based sampling for the adult male population during 2000. The shift to sampling of the adult male population in 2000 required that all 35 sites move to a common catchment area, the county. The ADAM program also implemented a new and expanded adult instrument in the first quarter of 2000, which was used for both the male and female data. The term "arrestee" is used in the documentation, but because no identifying data are collected in the interview setting, the data represent numbers of arrests rather than an unduplicated count of persons arrested. Funding The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) initiated ADAM in 1998 to replace DUF. In 2007, the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) initiated ADAM II.
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Art Museum Demographic Surveys Series

Over the past decade, Ithaka S+R collected data on strategy, leadership, staff demographics, and governance within U.S. art museums. In partnership with the Mellon Foundation, the Kress Foundation, the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), as well as the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) and the Black Trustee Alliance for Art Museums (BTA), Ithaka S+R conducted three studies: The Art Museum Staff Demographic Survey, conducted in 2015, 2018, and 2022, tracks changes in museum staff characteristics over time, shedding light on representational diversity within art museums. The Art Museum Director Survey, fielded in 2020 and 2022, captures shifts in directors' perspectives on revenue, staffing, programming partnerships, and climate change since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Art Museum Black Trustee Survey, conducted in 2022, explores the experiences of Black trustees in North American art museums, aiming to increase the inclusion of Black perspectives and narratives in museum spaces.
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Arts Basic Survey (ABS) Series

Investigators: National Endowment for the Arts; United States Department of Commerce. Bureau of the Census; United States Department of Labor. Bureau of Labor Statistics The Arts Basic Survey (ABS) Series is a valuable resource that offers insights into the American public's engagement with the arts. Conducted by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with the U.S. Census Bureau, the ABS serves as a supplement to the Current Population Survey and provides key data on arts attendance, personal art creation, and participation in the arts via digital platforms. This series complements the more extensive Survey of Public Participation in the Arts (SPPA) by offering a focused snapshot of national trends in arts involvement. The ABS Series is an essential tool for researchers, policymakers, and cultural organizations aiming to understand and enhance arts participation across diverse communities.
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Balance of Payments Series

Investigator(s): International Monetary Fund This series consists of time series data from the International Monetary Fund. Beginning in 1965, the series provides information on the balance of payments among countries and geographical regions of the world. Aggregate and detailed presentation show data for items such as investments, short- and long-term capital, reserves, and changes in reserves.
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Bridging the Gap Series

Bridging the Gap was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation funded nationally recognized research program dedicated to improving the understanding of how policies and environmental factors influence diet, physical activity and obesity among youth, as well as youth tobacco use. Bridging the Gap (BTG) was created in 1997 to assess the impact of policies, programs and other environmental influences on adolescent alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use and related outcomes. We examine these factors at multiple levels of social organization, including schools, communities and states. In recognition of the high rates of obesity among children, adolescents and adults, we expanded our efforts in 2003 to include research on the policies, programs and other factors that contribute to physical activity/inactivity, dietary behaviors and obesity. For more information, please visit the project website.
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British Crime Survey Series

Investigator(s): Home Office Research and Planning Unit, University of Essex The primary purpose of the British Crime Survey is to estimate how many of the public in England and Wales are victims of selected types of crime over a year, describing the circumstances under which people become victims, and the consequences of crime for victims. Other aims include providing background information on fear of crime among the public and on public contact with the police. Respondents are asked a series of screening questions to establish whether they or their households had been victims of relevant crimes during the one-year reference period. They are then asked a series of very detailed questions about the incidents they reported. Basic descriptive background information on respondents and their households is collected to allow analysis of the sorts of people who do and do not become victims. Information is also collected on other areas that are of intrinsic interest and that could usefully be related to experience as a victim, namely, fear of crime, contact with the police, lifestyle, and self-reported offending.Years Produced: Approximately every 4 years
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British General Election Survey Series

The British Election Studies (BES) at the University of Essex were initiated in 1974 to continue the series of election surveys previously conducted by David Butler and Donald Stokes at Nuffield College, Oxford (Political Change in Britain, 1963-1970). Surveys were conducted following the general elections of February 1974, October 1974, and May 1979, and following the Referendum on Britain's membership in the European Economic Community in 1975. The series has continued under the name British General Election Surveys (BGES), with surveys carried out at the time of each general election. The British General Election Survey has three general aims: (1) to collect data with a view to describing and explaining the outcome of general elections, (2) to analyze long-term changes in political attitudes and behavior from the early 1960s to the present, and (3) to organize and make available these data in a form suitable for a wide range of research. In 1992, a grant by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) to the University of Strathclyde enabled the representation of Scottish electors in the sample to be boosted substantially. This "oversampling" of the Scots was undertaken to permit more detailed investigation of voting behavior in Scotland than has usually been the case with the British General Election Surveys. The 1992 surveys were carried out as part of the activities of the ESRC-funded Joint Unit for the Study of Social Trends (JUSST). The 1997 studies were carried out by JUSST's successor, CREST (Centre for Research into Elections and Social Trends), in collaboration with Pippa Norris of Harvard University and with funding from the ESRC, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation, and the Commission for Racial Equality.For more information, visit the British Election Studies Information System Web site.
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British Social Attitudes Survey Series

Investigator(s): Social and Community Planning Research, Sharon Witherspoon, C.R. Airey, and R. Jowell The British Social Attitudes (BSA) survey series began in 1983, and has been conducted every year since, except in 1988 and 1992. Core funding for BSA is currently provided by Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts and is supplemented by financial support from a number of sources (including government departments, the Economic and Social Research Council [ESRC], and other research foundations). Final responsibility for the coverage and wording of the annual questionnaires rests with the National Centre for Social Research (prior to 1999 called Social and Community Planning Research). The series, designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal shifts, complements large-scale British government surveys such as the General Household Survey and the Labour Force Survey, which deal largely with facts and behavior patterns, as well as the data on party political attitudes produced by the polls. One of the main purposes of the BSA survey is to allow the monitoring of patterns of continuity and change, and the examination of the relative rates at which attitudes, with respect to a range of social issues, change over time. Many questions from this series were also included in the Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey, thus allowing direct comparison of the attitudes, values, and beliefs held by citizens of the United Kingdom on both sides of the Irish Sea.For more information, visit the British Social Attitudes Information System Web site.
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CBS News/New York Times Poll Series

Investigator(s): CBS/The New York Times Since 1976, CBS News and The New York Times -- both separately, together, and in combination with other news organizations -- have commissioned public opinion polls to collect information on the American public's attitudes and opinions on various issues. Monthly polls solicit respondents' opinions on the presidency and on a range of other political and social issues. Special topic polls focus on specific events or issues that are of timely significance, including political campaigns and elections. Users should note that until 1988, ICPSR combined all of the surveys for a given year (and sometimes for more than one year) into a single collection with one ICPSR study number.
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COVID-19 High Frequency Phone Survey of Households Series

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) has partnered with the Center for Global Health Equity (CGHE), and the NSF-funded project, Sub-National Data Archive System for Social and Behavioral Data (SUNGEO), to pilot a process of data acquisition, integration and curation, transformation/harmonization and dissemination. The goal of this project was to better understand distributions and scales of vaccine hesitancy in select L(M)ICs by leveraging the archiving and metadata tools at ICPSR, and the data storage, geospatial data transformation, integration, visualization, and merging techniques as part of SUNGEO. The collection of the World Bank’s High-Frequency Phone Surveys contain data from 2018 - 2021 related to agriculture, welfare monitoring, impacts of shocks/crises and more. Recent rounds of data collection were implemented to monitor the effects of COVID-19 on households. For additional information on these surveys, please visit the World Bank’s Microdata Library.
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COVID-19 and the Experiences of Populations at Greater Risk Series

In the context of COVID-19, RAND and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) partnered again to build from the National Survey of Health Attitudes to implement a longitudinal survey to understand how health views and values have been affected by the experience of the pandemic, with particular focus on populations deemed vulnerable or underserved, including people of color and those from low to moderate-income backgrounds. The series comprises a longitudinal study, which collected data in four waves. The study included two populations: A sample of populations at greater risk, and a general population sample. Refer to the summary for each individual study in the series to see which population or populations is included in that release. While the questions in the surveys were largely similar across all four waves, individual summaries also contain information about special focuses for that wave. Demographic information present in each study includes sex, marital status, household size, race and ethnicity, family income, employment status, age, and census region.
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CRELES: Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable) Series

The Costa Rican Longevity and Healthy Aging Study (CRELES, or "Costa Rica Estudio de Longevidad y Envejecimiento Saludable") is a set of nationally representative longitudinal surveys of health and lifecourse experiences of older Costa Ricans. CRELES was conducted by the University of Costa Rica's Centro Centroamericano de Población and Instituto de Investigaciones en Salud, in collaboration with the University of California at Berkeley. Baseline CRELES household interviews were conducted primarily in 2005, with 2-year follow-up interviews in 2007 and 2009. The sample was drawn from Costa Rican residents in the 2000 population census who were born in 1945 or before, with an over-sample of the oldest-old (ages 95 and over). The main study objective was to determine the length and quality of life, and its contributing factors in the elderly of Costa Rica. The series includes data on a broad range of topics including self-reported physical health, psychological health, living conditions, health behaviors, health care utilization, social support, and socioeconomic status. The data also include measured (biomarkers) and observed heath indicators as well as mortality information provided by surviving family members. The sampling weights specific for each wave (variables “ponde_r2” and “ponde_r3”) must be used when computing population estimates for 2007 with wave 2 or 2009 with wave 3 data. In prospective longitudinal analyses, however, is advisable to use the sampling weights provided for the baseline or wave 1 survey. The sampling weights are available in the tracking data file named “TrackCRELES". Each data set can be linked with the identifier variable CASEID. ICPSR maintains the CRELES Pre-1945 data, the CRELES 1945-1955 Retirement Cohort (RC) can be accessed by visiting the CRELES project website.
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Campaign Expenditures in the United States Series

Investigator(s): Federal Election Commission The Campaign Expenditures in the United States series is made available by the Federal Election Commission (FEC) through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The series provides longitudinal data about the United States Senate or House of Representatives committees involved in federal campaign finance within an election cycle, and on each registered candidate for the U.S. Senate or House of Representatives. Data are furnished on the contributions received and spent by the candidates, and the United States Congressional campaign contributions, disbursements, debts, and total expenditures for and against political candidates. The most current data are available on the FEC Web site.
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Canadian National Elections Study (CNES) Series

The Canadian National Elections Study (CNES) Series is a collection of national surveys produced in part by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the Canada Council, National Science Foundation, the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, and Canadian Facts. Initiated in 1965, the CNES has continued through every election since. The 1980 CNES includes the Quebec Referendum Panel Study and the 1993 CNES incorporates the 1992 Referendum Survey on the Charlottetown Accord. Interviews were conducted before and/or after national elections and in some cases prior and post major voting issues such as the Quebec Referendum. The studies are based on stratified multistage cross-section samples of voting age citizens living in private residences. Sample sizes range from roughly 1,000 - 4,000 respondents interviewed face to face, over the phone, and/or via mailed questionnaires. Many questions are replicated across studies, although each has questions not asked in the others. The major substantive areas consistently covered in all studies include respondents'expectations about the outcome of the election, perceptions and evaluations of the major parties, candidates and leaders, and overall assessment of government performance. Other topics, such as the perceived importance of a particular election, the party identification, political history, and voting intentions of respondents, their interest in politics, and their political motivation are also investigated. In addition, respondent opinions were solicited on political issues such as campaign spending, constitutional reform, unemployment, inflation, taxes, education, environmental issues, Canada/United States relations and the proposed separation of Quebec from Canada.
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Candidate Countries Eurobarometer Survey Series

In October 2001, the European Commission launched a new series of surveys in the 13 countries that are applying for European Union membership under the heading Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB). Initially named Applicant Countries Eurobarometer (or AC-EB) the surveys were ordered and co-ordinated by the Directorate-General for Press and Communication (Public Opinion Analysis). The CCEB surveys are carried out in Bulgaria, Republic of Cyprus (with a separate northern Cyprus survey parallel to 2002.2), Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. After a four year gap the CCEB is replacing the former Central and Eastern Eurobarometer. The CCEB surveys gather information from the societies applying to become members of the EU in a way that is comparable with the Standard Eurobarometer. The methodology used is almost identical to that of Standard Eurobarometers. Every survey is carried out on national representative samples of around 1000 respondents aged 15 and over in each country, except Malta and Cyprus where the samples are of 500 respondents, using face-to-face interviewing at the respondents' home. The national samples reflect the structure of population aged 15+ in terms of gender, age, regions of a country, settlement size, education level, and marital status. In each of the 13 candidate countries the surveys are carried out by national institutes associated with and coordinated by the Hungarian office of The GALLUP Organization in Budapest and GALLUP-Europe in Brussels.
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Capital Punishment in the United States Series

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics These data collections provide annual data on prisoners under a sentence of death and on those whose offense sentences were commuted or vacated during the years indicated. Information is supplied for basic sociodemographic characteristics such as age, sex, race, ethnicity, marital status at time of imprisonment, level of education, and state of incarceration. Criminal history data include prior felony convictions for criminal homicide and legal status at the time of the capital offense. Additional information is available for inmates removed from death row by yearend of the last year indicated and for inmates who were executed. The universe is all inmates on death row since 1972 in the United States. The inmate identification numbers were assigned by the Bureau of the Census and have no purpose outside these data collections. Years Produced: Annually (latest release contains all years) More information can be found in NACJD's Capital Punishment in the United States Resource Guide.
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Career Pathways Research Portfolio Series

Career pathways programs connect education, training, and related supports in a pathway that is intended to lead to employment in a specific sector or occupation or to further training. The approach is gaining attention as a promising strategy to improve post-secondary education and training outcomes for low-income and low-skilled adults. The Office of Planning Research, and Evaluation (OPRE)’s portfolio of research on career pathways represents the first rigorous research on the overall effectiveness of the career pathways approach. Beginning in 2007, with the launch of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) project and continuing with the evaluations of the Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG) Program administered by Administration for Children and Families’ (ACF) Office of Family Assistance, ACF has developed a robust portfolio of research on the career pathways approach. The Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education project was designed to produce rigorous evidence for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers about the effectiveness of nine career pathways approaches that sought to increase credentials, employment, and self-sufficiency among low-income, low-skilled Americans. PACE included nine program-specific evaluation reports. The study was led by Abt Associates, in partnership with MEF Associates, The Urban Institute, and the University of Michigan. The Health Profession Opportunity Grants Program was created to provide education and training to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients and other individuals with low incomes for occupations in the healthcare field that pay well and were expected to either experience labor shortages or be in high demand. HPOG was authorized as a demonstration program with a mandated federal evaluation. OPRE is utilizing a multi-pronged evaluation strategy to document the operations and assess the success of the HPOG Program. The evaluation strategy aims to provide information on program implementation, systems change, outcomes, and impacts. For more information on OPRE's Career Pathways Research portfolio, please visit the Career Pathways web site.
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Census Tract Data, 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1970: Elizabeth Mullen Bogue Files Series

Investigator(s): Bogue, Donald The Elizabeth Mullen Bogue Census Tract files for 1940, 1950, 1960, and 1970 were originally created by keypunching the data from the printed publications prepared by the Bureau of the Census. The work was done under the direction of Dr. Donald Bogue, whose wife, Elizabeth Mullen Bogue, completed much of the data work. Subsequently, the punchcards were converted to data files and transferred to the National Archive and Records Administration (NARA). ICPSR received copies of these files from NARA and converted the binary block-length records to ASCII format.
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Census of Federal Law Enforcement Officers (CFLEO) Series

This series collects data from all federal law enforcement agencies with arrest and firearms authority. Data collected include the number of officers working in the areas of criminal investigation and law enforcement, police patrol and response, security and protection, court operations, and corrections, by agency and state.
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Census of Governments Series

Investigator(s): U.S. Bureau of the Census The Census of Governments, a complete census of United States government units, is conducted at five-year intervals by the Census Bureau. Detailed financial and employment statistics are collected on the federal government and over 80,000 states, counties, municipalities, townships, and school and special districts in the United States. Two important components of the Census of Governments series are the Employment Statistics and Finance Statistics data collections. The Employment Statistics files contain employment and payroll figures by function. Full- and part-time employment and payrolls for various governmental functions are provided. The Finance Statistics files report finance data on revenues, expenditures, indebtedness and debt transactions, and cash and security holdings.
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Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) Series

  Investigator(s): Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention The Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) was administered for the first time in 1997 by the United States Bureau of the Census for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP). The CJRP provides a detailed picture of juveniles in custody and asks juvenile residential custody facilities in the United States to describe each youth assigned a bed in the facility on the specified reference date. The CJRP reference date was generally the fourth Wednesday in October. Characteristics of the facility, treatment services, and facility population are also collected. Some state and regional agencies provide CJRP data for more than one facility under their jurisdiction. The CJRP facility inclusion criteria are: (1) residential facilities in operation on the census reference date, (2) public or private (or tribal since 1999) operation, and (3) intended for juvenile offenders (although some hold adults as well). Specifically excluded are: nonresidential facilities; detention centers operated as part of adult jails; facilities exclusively for drug or mental health treatment or for abused or neglected children; foster homes; and federal correctional facilities (e.g., Immigration and Naturalization Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, United States Marshalls, or Bureau of Prisons). Inclusion criteria for individual-level data are: (1) youth under age 21, (2) assigned a bed in a residential facility at the end of the day on the census reference day, (3) charged with an offense or court-adjudicated for an offense, (4) and in residential placement because of that offense. Years Produced: Biennially since 1997, in odd-numbered years. (Note: The 2005 data collection was conducted in February 2006.) National Juvenile Corrections Data Summary The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention sponsored three series of national juvenile corrections data collections: Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities Series, Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP) Series, and the Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) Series. The CJRP was administered for the first time in 1997. The CJRP replaced the Census of Public and Private Juvenile Detention, Correctional, and Shelter Facilities (formerly called the Juvenile Detention and Correctional Facility Census series and also known as the Children in Custody (CIC) census), which had been conducted since the early 1970s. The CJRP differs fundamentally from CIC in that the CIC collected aggregate data on juveniles held in each facility (e.g., number of juveniles in the facility) and the CJRP collects an individual record on each juvenile held in the residential facility to provide a detailed picture of juveniles in custody. The companion data collection to CJRP, the JRFC, is designed to collect information about the facilities in which juvenile offenders are held. ICPSR merged data from the CJRP series with data from the JRFC series. These studies are included in the Matched Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement (CJRP)/Juvenile Residential Facility Census (JRFC) Series. More information can be found in NACJD's National Juvenile Corrections Data Resource Guide.
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Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA) Series

Investigator(s): Bureau of Justice Statistics The Census of Law Enforcement Training Academies (CLETA) is a periodic data collection that collects information from training academies that are responsible for administering basic training to newly appointed or elected law enforcement officers. The CLETA includes information from academies about recruits, staff, training curricula, equipment, and facilities. These academies are operated by state, regional, county and municipal law enforcement agencies as well as universities, colleges, and technical schools.